pooflady

They've changed their mind. It's a bowel obstruction, which I've always thought was inside the bowel. The doc described it like when a clown twists a balloon. They gave him medicine for it, which kind of blows my mind. How does medicine untwist a bowel? Anyway, they'll know by morning if it untwisted or whether he'll have to have surgery.

dontwantaname

pooflady wrote:They've changed their mind. It's a bowel obstruction, which I've always thought was inside the bowel. The doc described it like when a clown twists a balloon. They gave him medicine for it, which kind of blows my mind. How does medicine untwist a bowel? Anyway, they'll know by morning if it untwisted or whether he'll have to have surgery.

Hope it goes well.

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dontwantaname

pooflady wrote:Just came from there. Now it's back to gallbladder. They're waiting on some tests.

Never go to the er on the weekend.
It took them 10 hours to decide to operate on Son's appendix and it was burst by the time they did it.
Maybe it has burst the night before....but now we'll never know.

Empty er. I'm thinking it took that long to find a surgeon .

So many businesses work 24/7. A hospital is an odd choice to not work full speed on the weekends.

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Mavyn

Raining wrote:I wonder if anyone has died while they are waiting on tests?

Yes. It's usually only mentioned in reports if there something went wrong that delayed the results. In other words, if the test takes 12 hours, and there's nothing that can be done until the results are back and no way to make it happen faster, it doesn't make headlines. If the test should take 5 minutes and a tech takes a smoke break and then forgets, it's all over the news.

ThunderThighs

pooflady wrote:Son is out of surgery. They're keeping him overnight because the gallbladder was so enlarged and infected, but fortunately nothing in the bile duct so laprascopic surgery was sufficient.

Thanks everyone for your kind thoughts and prayers.

Glad everything is well. After he's well and on his feet again, are you gonna smack him upside the head for waiting so long?

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